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UK Borders Bill (13 Jun 2007)

Baroness Anelay of St Johns: ...have introduced in less than 10 years—indeed, the sixth, if one includes the Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act 1997. We await with bated breath the publication of the consolidation Bill next year. If passing legislation were the answer to making our borders more secure, we would have the safest and most secure immigration system in the world. But it doesn't and we don't....

Offender Management Bill (11 Jun 2007)

Baroness Anelay of St Johns: ...and Regulatory Reform Act 2006—but they have themselves adapted the super-affirmative procedure to suit their own ends in other legislation, including the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and the ID Cards Bill, in which an amendment was included to that effect until they decided to accede to the request of noble Lords that, instead of any kind of affirmative instrument, there shouldbe...

Offender Management Bill (11 Jun 2007)

Baroness Anelay of St Johns: ...;will recall that Clause 4 prevents the Secretary of State from opening up core offender management work to contestability. That protection, however, can be whisked away by a statutory instrument laid under the powers given to the Secretary of State in Clause 12. The Government have said that they will not expose services such as the writing of court reports to contestability until they...

Serious Crime Bill [HL] (21 Mar 2007)

Baroness Anelay of St Johns: ...find a television, if they dared. Certainly, data matching is not necessarily efficacious or fair upon its subjects. The Minister picked up on the comments of my noble friend Lord Crickhowell about ID cards. We are all warriors in this regard. We remember—I shall not say with fond memories—the exchanges on the Identity Cards Act, as I regret to say it now is, for the time...

Police and Justice Bill (10 Oct 2006)

Baroness Anelay of St Johns: ...am grateful to the Minister for addressing them. They were necessarily lengthy and detailed questions simply because, of course, when these matters return to another place, as ever, they can be considered only in the very truncated procedure of Commons consideration of Lords amendments. It was important not merely for this House and another place but for the public generally that the noble...

Police and Justice Bill (11 Jul 2006)

Baroness Anelay of St Johns: ...anyone over 18. They know a heck of a lot more about it than I would do; not that I would want to learn how to misuse information technology—I leave that to the Government and their plans for ID cards. On that note, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44) (22 May 2006)

Baroness Anelay of St Johns: I now enter the more peaceful waters of happy slapping. I hasten to say that the amendment is probing at this stage. Having just provided the Government the opportunity to strip this Bill of 11 clauses, I am now being more helpful by trying to put another one in. The amendment would insert a new offence of recording a criminal offence for personal gratification—otherwise known as happy...

Identity Cards Bill (29 Mar 2006)

Baroness Anelay of St Johns: My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Armstrong of Ilminster, for all his valuable work in finding a compromise; he has found one which the Government have today accepted. If anyone outside this House wanted an example of the value in our deliberations of those who sit on our Cross-Benches, they have only to look to his work on this matter. ID cards will be voluntary in the initial...

Identity Cards Bill (28 Mar 2006)

Baroness Anelay of St Johns: ...Government what they say they need while preserving, with the opt-out provision, the vital element of personal freedom to which the noble Lord, Lord Armstrong, has referred. The Home Secretary said last week that he welcomed the helpful intervention of the noble Lord, Lord Armstrong of Ilminster, and that he was grateful to him for his efforts to resolve the impasse on the matter of...

Identity Cards Bill (20 Mar 2006)

Baroness Anelay of St Johns: .... I support Motion A1, moved by the noble Lord, Lord Phillips of Sudbury, and oppose government Motion A. Motion A1 offers the Government an honourable and reasonable compromise. In essence, it provides the opportunity for the Government to proceed immediately with a voluntary ID card and a national register regime related to passports. Significantly, it would also enable the Government to...

Identity Cards Bill (15 Mar 2006)

Baroness Anelay of St Johns: ...by the noble Lord, Lord Phillips, and oppose government Motion A. The objective of the noble Lord's Motion is admirably simple. It would enact the Government's manifesto commitment. The Minister said that she does not want to return to that lengthy argument and instead gave us a history of other government documents—all of which I have read because that is my job. The public, who go...

Identity Cards Bill (15 Mar 2006)

Baroness Anelay of St Johns: My Lords, I am always so pleased to hear from the noble Lord, Lord Foulkes. I sometimes think he is my greatest ally on the Benches opposite. When I consider the manifesto commitments on education reform and what is happening in another place today, on reforming the health service and on smoking issues, of course, the noble Lord is right to point out that this Government can be relied on to...

Identity Cards Bill (15 Mar 2006)

Baroness Anelay of St Johns: ...prepared to tell us the costs of their scheme. So far, they have refused. In urging the House to follow this road, it is important that we uphold the right for the people, not the Government, to decide voluntarily if they want to be enrolled for an ID card. Why do the Government not trust the people to exercise their free will? That is my advice to the Government; trust the people, and...

Identity Cards Bill (6 Mar 2006)

Baroness Anelay of St Johns: ..., I am grateful to noble Lords opposite who have a great interest in this amendment. However, I thought it might be helpful to the House if I put one or two issues on the record before the debate widened out. I make it clear that on this occasion I support the Motion in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Phillips of Sudbury, and oppose the Government's Motion. That is the only time today...

Identity Cards Bill (6 Mar 2006)

Baroness Anelay of St Johns: ...the Minister. She refers to the treatment of this amendment in another place and another place's decision. Of course the treatment of it demonstrates the limitation allowed in another place for consideration of Lords' amendments. The only direct reference to this amendment lies in its demise: "Lords Amendment No. 4 disagreed to".—[ Official Report, Commons, 13/2/06; col. 1244.] It...

Identity Cards Bill (6 Mar 2006)

Baroness Anelay of St Johns: ...-led amendment but was tabled by Mr Frank Dobson. It is not right today that we should return to rehearsing arguments for greater transparency and openness about the costs associated with the ID card scheme. The Government conceded that principle in another place when they supported Mr Dobson's amendment. The issue for today is whether Amendment No. 70A achieves transparency and openness...

Identity Cards Bill (6 Feb 2006)

Baroness Anelay of St Johns: ...clause is not operable. If we wished to travel across the EU, we would have to comply with its requirements. Shame, one might say, but that is the reality. I anticipate that, as my noble friend said, the amendment seeks clarification and will not be pressed today. Subsection (2) ask a very pertinent question, and I hope that the Minister will be able to give a proper and satisfactory reply...

Identity Cards Bill (6 Feb 2006)

Baroness Anelay of St Johns: My Lords, my noble friends have delivered a devastating critique of the implications of last week's NAO report on the operation of ID cards. I support what they have said.

Identity Cards Bill (6 Feb 2006)

Baroness Anelay of St Johns: ...about which documents shall be designated under Clause 4. If a document is designated, it means that any application for such a document kicks off the process of application for entry by the individual on the national identity register and the obtaining by them of an identity card. I have probed the Government's intentions behind this. I have been told that their current intention is to...

Identity Cards Bill (6 Feb 2006)

Baroness Anelay of St Johns: My Lords, I listened with great interest to the noble and learned Lord, Lord Ackner, bringing back the amendment in an improved form. As he said, he is trying to reflect fairly the response given by the noble Lord, Lord Bassam of Brighton, to an amendment of mine which I had, of course, intended in all seriousness in Committee, but for some reason the House seemed to find a little frivolous...